Responsible for College of the Rockies'
acceptance of PTI's false Prerequisites:
Doug McLachlan, VP

APN Program

Phoenix

PTI

PTI

PTI

PTI

PTI

PTI

PTI

PTI

Year

2002/FA

2003/FA

2004/FA1

2004/FA2

2005/FA

2006/WI

2006/SP

2006/FA

Intake

24

25

26

23

24

20

20

20

158

Withdrew

4

3

3

2

2

2

1

0

13

Total in Class

20

22

23

21

22

18

19

20

145

Total graduated CotR

17

14

20

11

17

11

11

18

102

Not Graduated/failed

3

8

3

10

5

7

8

2

43

Percentage failed

15%

36%

13%

48%

23%

39%

42%

10% ?

30%

If Prerequisites were properly
verified this high percentage of failing
students should never have happened !!

ESL Background Students

6 of 8

2 of 3

9 of 10

4 of 5

6 of 7

7 of 8

2 of 2

37 of 43

of Students who failed

Known

Estimated Numbers of failed ESL
Background stundents! Estimated

since Doug McLachlan has refused to
dísclose them

PTI had asked
every ESL background student I talked to, to write their
Prerequisite Academic English test's Essay at home,
which was clearly against CotR's rules. Why didn't
Mclachlan check on this already in 2003?

Jane
Johnston lost her RN license due to forgeries found at PTI and
PCTIA closed PTI down, McLachlan knows that!

Forging and also accepting forged prerequisite Documents is a criminal
offence!

But only in BC it seems vulnerable victims of
such a
crime are punished and not the criminals!

A
crime that has destroyed, the way defrauded
students lived and
Student Loan financial their reputation

A
crime, causing financial reputational damage many of them have not been able to recover
from!

A
crime that is based on forgeries and dishonesty of
Public Officials in British Columbia!

A
crime whose Victims are denied access to Justice by the Province
of British Columbia!

What was the Crime?

That between 2003 and 2007 College of the Rockies (CotR)
Educational Partner PTI Online Inc. forged Prerequisite
Documents of applicants to get them admitted into CotR's $15,000
tuition Access to Practical Nursing Program while CotR failed to
verify the validity of these legally binding documents! That
CotR protected the criminal by keeping PCTIA's (British Columbia's regulatory body for private
career training institutions)
findings in 2007 a secret to cover up the crime!
Here is what we found:

1.
PCTIA's
Report about
PTI’s license cancellation requested by College of the Rockies
(CotR) President and CEO Nick Rubidge is describing a large scale forgery of
certificates that were intended and also used as prerequisite
documentation to admit students without the necessary prerequisites into
College of the Rockies (CotR) $15.000 tuition APN Program! No, no. this
were Forged Documents and not fraudulent documents as reported by
PCTIA's CEO Jim Wright.

2. Forgery only needs
to prove "intend" in court, while fraud is much more difficult to prove!
Perhaps CotR's Nick Rubidge had asked PCTIA to investigate PTI for allegedly providing
false program completion certificate and work experience documents,
which were used as prerequisite for just a
student to gain entry into an LPN Program offered by CotR. But
this wasn't only one Student, there were many more!

3. In this respect
many indictable criminal offences were committed as described in the
report that would have lead to convictions and a thorough investigation
if reported to the Police for they would have found that BC's Ministry for
Advanced Education's Student Loan Department was defrauded
for around $450,000 by CotR due to admissions, based on
forged prerequisites!

4.
During an investigation the Police would have also found, that CotR
nearly never
verified what PTI submitted and that would have extended the forgery to
public Servants of the College! They would have also found, that Jane
Johnston had forged or manipulated many pencil filled multiple choice
Academic English Assessment Tests and Essays to fill classes, while CotR
hardly verified anything PTI submitted!

5. Prerequisites are legally
binding and they are set by a College to insure that students admitted
to the course they apply to, have the ability to succeed! If they
are falsified/forged the student's chances to succeed are very slim and
that's why they didn't succeed! In this respect students admitted into a
course are victims of crime cannot be blamed if they don't succeed, nor
should they be liable for paying for the course!

6. PTCIA's
report, describing the crime was not
disclosed to students in 2007 nor made public, CC'd by PCTIA's CEO Jim
Wright to CotR's CEO Nick Rubidge and then ended up in PCTIA's
archives! When we tried to get the
report in 2009 PCTIA did do everything in their power to prevent
disclosure and delayed the disclosure after the Provincial election!

7. According to CotR, between
2003 and 2007 there were 34 Students who were admitted by PTI and didn't
succeed! We can only estimate that 30 of them had an ESL Background,
since CotR's
dishonest administration has so far refused to disclose
that number, but there is evidence that this number is very close! Only
a very few, who had English as their first Language failed and some of
them failed for they did not have the work experience shown in their
forged prerequisite Documentation.

8. It is the extremely high number
of unsuccessful ESL Background students compared to the total number of
Students who didn't succeed, that CotR is trying to hide! It shows some well
camouflaged racism! Jane Johnston, PTI's manager who produced all these
forgeries was carefully redacted from PCTIA's report and and the report
does not have a signature either!

9.
Instead of protecting
Students PCTIA hides the crime and the identity of the criminals. So does CotR's CEO Nick
Rubidge who in the past he has
held senior positions with AVED. Is he is using his influence there to cover up PTI's criminal
activities, since a thorough investigation might have proven to be self
incriminating.

10. It looks like, that Nick Rubidge is protecting the
criminal, for when Gary Wice
the student, who exposed Jane Johnston criminal
activities requested a tuition refund as compensation for his
unjustified withdrawal, CotR denied any help, though CotR knew that PTI had a
mandatory Fidelity Bond Insurance that would have covered the $15,000 he
wanted back. But in this case charges had to be laid against
Jane Johnston! Something that Nick Rubidge did avoid! Why?

11. All the students I talked to joined the APN
Program in good faith and figured they could have succeeded, but that
the Program was not properly delivered or they should have passed etc.!
That's exactly what CotR wanted them to focus on, for there is no way
students can sue a college for educational malpractice and never mind
the police! Therefore CotR avoided to discuss PTI's role by telling
unsuccessful students to direct their Complaints to their lawyer in
Vancouver while Students had no idea about the forged Prerequisites in
their Student files in remote Cranbrook. If their files would have been
in the Vancouver area, they might have gone with their friends to look
at them, but since their Academic English skills did not reflect CotR's
test results, they had problems to formulate a written request and what
they are looking for.

12. Since
PTI got paid $5,760 for each student
recruited, it's obvious, that PTI's task to take control of how the
English Essay and the pencil filled Multiple Choice Academic English
Assessment test was done presented a high conflict of Interest risk! A
risk, CotR completely ignored from 2003 -2007 while at the same time they avoided any
rapport to Students visiting PTI once per week! Though already in 2003,
6 Students representing ~80% of the unsuccessful students
had an ESL background, CotR ignored the highly possible conflict of
interest and didn't investigate if PTI had followed proper test
procedures! Instead they decided not to keep any records on file that
would show the high percentage of ESL Background Students that did not
succeed compared to those that were unsuccessful and had English as
their first Language!

13. Not one of them ever figured out, that they
couldn't succeed due to forged prerequisites. When 3 students took CotR
to Small Claims Court in 2008, they had absolutely
no knowledge of PCTIA's report and CotR's lawyer immediately tried to
convince the Court
that PTI or Jane Johnston were not relevant for any of the student claims,
though students had included PTI in their complaint! If PCTIA's report would have been disclosed to them in 2007
they would have had something that they could have taken to the police and
most likely
the Police could have been successful in charging Jane Johnston and also
determine CotR's role in this! Perhaps they could have given that report
to a lawyer. who then would have insured, that students received their
well deserved refund already in 2007/08.

14. Though I made AVED aware of PCTIA's report their Deputy
Minister is ignoring the issue and makes fun out of students, by telling
them that it would have been the students responsibility to notify the
Police! When we tried this in 2009, we didn't have any data, that the RCMP needed to positively identify
Jane Johnston out of the many, Jane Johnston's
in BC. However, it's the responsibility of good government to insure
all their citizens are protected against crime and that responsibility
also applies to AVED and their deputy Minister! Sure there are the
courts, but just to look at and study the problem lawyers wanted $4,000 to
$5,000 retainer to take the case into regular court, they figured $80,000 to $100,000! This this
equal to a denial of Justice! I am fighting CotR for I have
seen then desperation and pain this has caused to those who still suffer
the consequences of the crime they were a victim off!

The Victims of this crime have no
resources to fight back! They need help for the legal trouble they are a
victim of, if you can and want to help please contact us by
Email

January 9th, 2012
The following is without Prejudice, but should give the reader a good
idea about the evidence we have! We are going to provide links to all relevant documents that support
what is written here.

After 3 ESL
background students succeeded against College of the Rockies (CotR) in
Small Claims Court, Gary Wice contacted me in response to an article in
the
Vancouver Sun. He wondered why he never received a refund he
requested form CotR in 2007 and also told me, that there were a lot of
students in his class who failed. Then Margarita T told me in her class,
there were 6 to 7 Students who failed and had an ESL Background.
Therefore she to wrote CotR asking to tell her how many Students failed
CotR's APN Program between 2003 and 2007 and how many of them had an ESL
Background.

However, CotR's VP
Doug Mclachlan replied asking for $2,600, claiming that CotR
would need over 90 hours to search for documents in students files
archives for a document that may exist, since CotR didn't collect
Language information from students during their general intake Process!
Clearly a refusal to disclose those numbers since Information of the
APNP Students first Language was was collected since 2003, when Students
were required to fill out a
Personal Data sheet before they took the Academic English Assessment
test, which clearly asked if English was their first Language with Yes
or No.

In 2004 the same
Doug Mclachlan who was the Dean for the APN Program wrote a
letter to Delia C, telling her that from the beginning of 2004 each
ESL applicant had to take an ESL test at Douglas College in New
Westminster. Besides a billing record from Douglas College there is a
Prerequisite Data Sheet
and Douglas
College's test result in each ESL Student file, much more then
McLachlan's maybe exists. Meaning ESL background information was
collected by CotR, but they didn't keep any records on file!

4. ESL background
Info should be transparent!

Between 2003 and
2007 34 students failed after they were admitted through PTI which
amounts to $495.000 tuition and we believe that transparency requires
that the number of students who failed and had an ESL Background should
be kept on record and be available free of charge to anyone! It's
definitively CotR's fault, that they didn't keep a record of what they
collected and we say that these records were intentionally not made or
kept!

5. Why did 6 ESL
Background Students out of 22 not succeed in CotR's 2003/04 APN Program?

That's something I
noticed right away when I studied the student list in 2007. Was that
something CotR never noticed and ever since I wondered why!
Prerequisites for a College Program are chosen and established to insure
that all students within the prerequisite requirements can succeed! We
know from CotR's numbers that 2003/04 8 students didn't succeed, but we
have only 7 names! Out of these 6 have an ESL Background. However
that I firmly believe should have never happened if Language
prerequisites were properly selected and the students met the
requirements.

6. What were the
Prerequisites for CotR's APN Program and why?

Since CotR's APN
Program was a self study course of theory during the first 2 semester a
high degree of academic English skills were essential for students to
succeed! In order to meet these prerequisites there was an Essay to be
written under close supervision without any help and a Multiple Choice
Academic English Assessment test to be filled with Pencil. the other
Prerequisites were a BC Registered Care Attendant Certificate and 1000
to 1500 hours experience after being certified as RCA. I like to outline
here, that the above prerequisites were not needed for other full time
face to face LPN training courses with other provincial colleges in BC
offered for only around $5,000. That this course was meant for students
with excellent Academic English skills and experienced RCA's.

7. Why didn't
McLachlan check out in 2004 why 7 - 8 Students could not succeed?

Clearly if the
prerequisites were genuine, this high number of students should have
never failed and therefore it was McLachlan's duty as their Dean to
investigate what really happened. Since the English Essay and the
Academic English Assessment Test was completely handled by PTI and
PTI was paid $5,760 per student there was a very high Conflict of
Interest risk, that had to be addressed. So McLachlan should have
arranged for a meeting with all unsuccessful students in Vancouver and
asked them about their experience with PTI. They would have told
McLachlan, that they were asked to do their English Essays at home! But
such an easy investigation never happened! Instead Delia C, whose online
instructor Sandi Hill (Hendrickson), complained bitterly about Delia's poor
academic English skills, also reflected in Doug McLachlan's
letter to Delia C in 2004, was readmitted though an new Academic
English assessment test was never done under McLachlan's leadership and
CotR's
rules for readmission were completely ignored! The ESL test required
was only an
easy Oral test, that did not address Delia's weak academic English
skills! In this respect even
Douglas College's Instructor wondered why no written test was done
and wrote that Delia actual did not pass the ESL test if Douglas College
standards were applied! When Delia spoke for 15 seconds to a judge in
Small Claims Court, the Judge right away told her she had
to get a court certified interpreter for any future court sessions.
Morris W wrote a
letter in May 2004 to CotR
complaining about PTI. If you read it you could easily conclude,
that it would be impossible to be written by someone who
scored 95%+ in the Academic English Assessment Test
that entered Morris into the APN Program! Something Doug Mclachlan
should have noticed when Morris phoned him up- to discuss the letter.
Instead Doug Mclachlan focused on Morris' poor results and then told him
he could contact CotR's lawyer in Vancouver! Under the circumstances or
the documented evidence, we can safely say that Doug McLachlan didn't
want to investigate anything that would compromise or put PTI's
activities in doubt as long as the $15,000 per Student was coming in!

8. But the year
thereafter was even worse

In the
2004/05F
APN Program out of 21 participating students 10 did not succeed and
8 - 9 or even all 10 had an ESL Background. From here until 2007 we know
for sure that all the ESL Background students had been sent to Douglas
College for an ESL test and that therefore ESL Background data was
collected, but I guess intentionally not put on record!

9. Why the high
number of ESL students not succeeding kept on going until 2007!

Though one can be
sure that CotR was fully aware about the Conflict Interest Risk due to
PTI's role of conducting the Academic English Assessment Tests, CotR
never investigated how the academic English Assessment tests and Essays
were done and arranged by PTI. Perhaps since 2003 CotR avoided any
rapport with students during their first 2 semester with PTI in New
Westminster. Besides this CotR never provided any Student Association
contact information to APN Program students and the ESL Background
students didn't have the slightest idea, that perhaps there was a
Student Association in Cranbrook. Starting 2003 according to the
Service Contract, students could have asked PTI for tutoring to be
supplied by CotR. That was never disclosed and no tutor ever assisted
and talked to students during the first 2 Semester in New Westminster
between 2003 and 2007. Perhaps Margarita says they were told that they
were not permitted to phone up anyone at CotR! If CotR would have sent
or hired tutor for New Westminster, students would have told, what
happened at PTI and it looks like something that McLachlan and Company
tried to avoid! Margarita says, that 6 - 7 classmates shared with her
that they were admitted by purchasing an RCA certificate from Jane
Johnston. A certificate, that was never handed out or shown to students
and only used to create a copy that was sent to CotR for admission.
Margarita says she wrote the English Essay at home and there were 5
students who wrote the Academic English Assessment test together with
her and that each of these classmates prior to this test had been
provided by Jane Johnston with questions and results of that test to
study at home! Naturally most of them couldn't succeed in the APN
Program though all of them passed with high scores that didn't reflect
their real Academic English skills, similar as in 2003 where we know
that Delia and Morris could have never achieved an
87% or 95% score. But now in order to avoid transparency
CotR stopped to show the actual scores in % in Margarita's records
and though you can see that
Margarita failed the Essay (Writing Score), she was not asked to
redo it and
she was admitted anyway.

10. CotR's long
standing refusal to disclose the service contract

CotR left students
to believe, that
Jane Johnston was their instructor and tutor in Vancouver. Though
she wasn't she didn't tell them either! Though
Morris W's letter clearly complained that the Program was not properly
delivered by PTI, CotR's McLachlan never made this clear to Morris W
or any other student that PTI was not responsible for that! Perhaps
CotR's administration had refused until 2009 to disclose the service
Contract, that clearly defined PTI's and CotR's roles, though
transparency would have required this since students had the right to
know PTI's and CotR's role since they paid $15,000 tuition for the
course! Instead CotR had asked their lawyer to attack me openly in the
New Westminster Court lobby, threatening me with cost if they had to
fight Morris W's Order to a Judge for disclosure of the Service
Contract! Why me?? I was only assisting Morris W. CotR just loves their
lawyer to threaten and intimidate anyone who tries to assist those poor
defrauded students. They seem to be proud that they ruined those peoples
lives and figure that they can use lawyers like pit-bulls to bully them
or anyo0ne assisting!

11. What happened
in 2007

The Scam kept on
going until 2007, when Gary
Wice reported Jane Johnston to the College of Registered Nurses! He
told his Dean Gary Johnson in 2007, that he had no work experience and
was right away withdrawn from the course he paid 15,000 for, since work
experience was prerequisite and therefore legally binding . He was never
told by PTI's Jane Johnston that he needed any experience as an RCA and
CotR produced a Work history document that he told them wasn't from him.
In this respect it can be concluded, that all the students Jane Johnston
sold a RCA Certificate to be admitted had a work history in their files,
that wasn't from them and could not be verified. Since CotR did not believe him, Gary said he
filed a complaint with the College of Registered Nurses about PTI's Jane
Johnston he knew, was responsible for the forged Work History in his
student file! They hired a private Investigator who told Gary he found
multiple forgeries and as a result Jane Johnston's license as an RN was
cancelled! Then CotR immediately severed their ties with PTI. Gary also
said there were a lot of students who failed in his class! Therefore we
need to know how many of those had an ESL Background?

12. Why was the
Fidelity Bond Insurance not used in 2007 to refund Gary Wice?

When Gary Wice asked
for the $15,000 to be refunded, he was advised by CotR that PTI had his
money and that therefore they could not honor his request. But looking
at the
Service Contract CotR had with PTI, PTI had to have a valid
insurance coverage as a Fidelity Bond for $50,000 for each employee.
Since Jane Johnston was employed by PTI, all CotR had to do was to ask
PTI's owner Dr. Peter Ko to file a claim with the Fidelity Bond
insurance company. However in this case the Fidelity Bond insurer would
have required that charges were filed against Jane Johnston who is also
the wife of Mike Johnston. This never happed and question is why? In
case PTI was not insured, CotR could have held Dr. Ko liable as well.
This never happened either!

13. Were there
any verifications of prerequisite Documents by CotR at all?

According to the
Service Contract it was CotR's duty to verify all prerequisite documents
submitted by PTI. Here the interesting question is why were Gary Wice's
and other APN Program students prerequisite documents not properly
verified? In view of Gary Wice's forged Work History we can conclude
that all the Students who purchased a RCA certificate from Jane
Johnston, have forged work history documents in their student files
which were not verifiable, something CotR should have definitively
noticed by checking on employers and that applies to Gary Wice's Work
History as well. But we also found 2 (I.
B's and
Margarita T's) certificates submitted to CotR, that could be
clearly and easily identified as false and therefore forged! Why was
that never discovered if any verifications were done at all. We were
looking at only 4 Student files and found 2 Certificates that can be
clearly identified as being false by just looking at them! We also have
Margarita's work history we know was never verified by CotR, for
there is no Employers address or Contact information. Since none of the
students, who were sold an RCA Certificate for admission were told they
needed a work history from their employer certifying they had at least
1000 hours work Experience as an RCA, none of the Works Certificates, of
students who purchased an RCA certificate from Jane Johnston could have
been verifiable and CotR never did anything to verify any at all. There
was a Nancy Janisch at CotR who shows up and we believe from 2003 to
2007 for verification of prerequisite Documentation. After 2007 she was
promoted to be an Executive Assistant to Doug McLachlan and in
2009 and
2010 she also was an Executive Assistant for a Board of Governors
meeting. However Nancy Janisch completely disappeared from CotR around
August 2011, Just around the time Margarita received her Jane Johnston
forgeries from CotR.

The devastating
consequences for the victims!

In Canada an unpaid
Student Loan remains active and can not be included into bankruptcy
proceedings and it will have a very negative impact on a person's credit
rating! Since many of these students didn't have a job with an
income to repay the $15,000 they lost due to PTI's criminal activities,
ended up in collection, who is steadily harassing them and has destroyed
their financial reputation credit rating to the point where they have
serious problems to keep even a low paying job! Some of them were advised by PTI to quit their permanent jobs
when they were admitted and after they were kicked out of the
APN Program their job was no longer available and the found only
Part Time work, that didn't allow them to repay their student loans!

An Example of
Consequences for the Victims and the Ombudsperson!

Take for example
Margarita T. and look at her
complaint to the Ombudsperson in March
2011, Other students complained already in 2007, with the result
that the Ombudsperson took a hear no Evil, see no Evil do no Evil
attitude! As far as I understood them in 2008, they had obtained PTI's
files from PCTIA, including the report and instead of investigating
CotR, they seemed to investigate the students and closed all their
files, for apparently the students didn't respond. The College of
Registered Nurses fall under the jurisdiction of the Ombudsperson's
office, but they didn't even find out, that Jane Johnston lost her RN
license due to Gary Wice's complaint to RN College. Whenever I
mentioned, that there were criminal activities involved, that they could
refer to police for further investigation they would reply: "Oh, no if
it's criminal we don't deal with it at all", They would not even look at
the unfairness that would is caused by a criminal act towards the
complainant! Maybe the Ombudsperson's office should be renamed to
the "Executive Public Servants Job Protection Agency" with the slogan,
complaints are welcome, but we are here to close them in favor of our
beloved Public Servants!